Introducing iQuango.org
iQuango.org will have two parts.
Firstly, in the same way that theUNsays.com makes what the Secretary General says alertable and commentable (like theWhitehouseSays.com and DowningStreetSays.com), we can extend that to the many, many International Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations who operate on behalf of the world community (IMF, WorldBank, IAEA et al) with substantial public interest in what they say, and potentially divergent or contradictory. The unspun announcements from the original source, easily linkable and commentable.
Once we have a few of those (starting with the easy ones and moving up) it's then possible and easy to draw together the announcements on things of interest, made by many NGO's working internationally. Many organisations work in similar geographic areas or on similar themes (or both) and put out press releases and announcements on their topics of interest, but it's not something we get to see (watch tonight's news, and see how many times Tibet is mentioned). And unless you can look across multiple areas, you get very different suggestions about what's going on in one small part of Africa - for example - and that's just 3 view points, and doesn't reflect a diverse continent. How much richer would that be with MSF, World Food Programme and other agencies included, showing what they said and when they said it.
The idea is based on Larry Brilliant's design for a global health monitoring system. This is slightly narrower in terms of inputs (english announcements from NGOs), but much simple and wider in terms of outputs (any keyword you want to search for). Not all of it needs to be (or will be) on this site - the above DSS/UNSays/WHsays/SpinDifferent model shows it can be distributed and things get pulled in. Adding an individual organisation isn't complicated and isn't time consuming - it just needs someone to care about that organisation. While some NGOs might help, most wont. It'll be faster if you help.
If you're interesting in lending a hand to cover your favourite NGO, drop me an email.
Firstly, in the same way that theUNsays.com makes what the Secretary General says alertable and commentable (like theWhitehouseSays.com and DowningStreetSays.com), we can extend that to the many, many International Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations who operate on behalf of the world community (IMF, WorldBank, IAEA et al) with substantial public interest in what they say, and potentially divergent or contradictory. The unspun announcements from the original source, easily linkable and commentable.
Once we have a few of those (starting with the easy ones and moving up) it's then possible and easy to draw together the announcements on things of interest, made by many NGO's working internationally. Many organisations work in similar geographic areas or on similar themes (or both) and put out press releases and announcements on their topics of interest, but it's not something we get to see (watch tonight's news, and see how many times Tibet is mentioned). And unless you can look across multiple areas, you get very different suggestions about what's going on in one small part of Africa - for example - and that's just 3 view points, and doesn't reflect a diverse continent. How much richer would that be with MSF, World Food Programme and other agencies included, showing what they said and when they said it.
The idea is based on Larry Brilliant's design for a global health monitoring system. This is slightly narrower in terms of inputs (english announcements from NGOs), but much simple and wider in terms of outputs (any keyword you want to search for). Not all of it needs to be (or will be) on this site - the above DSS/UNSays/WHsays/SpinDifferent model shows it can be distributed and things get pulled in. Adding an individual organisation isn't complicated and isn't time consuming - it just needs someone to care about that organisation. While some NGOs might help, most wont. It'll be faster if you help.
If you're interesting in lending a hand to cover your favourite NGO, drop me an email.
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